The Importance of Public Health Priorities in Africa

"I have some connections to East Africa, and I've spent time there," he says. "What they found among some African policy people was this kind of frustration that everyone wanted to pour money into AIDS at the time." He asks: What would have happened if funding had gone into building hospitals into neonatal care? The answer is a lot more drastic than you might think; it's an utter collapse of any attempts to find a reasoned public health policy.